Acts passed at the first session of the Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of New-York on Wednesday the fourth of March in the year M, DCC, LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States, the thirteenth
Vol. 2 has title: Acts passed at the first session of the Second Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, in the year M, DCC, XCI, and of the independence of the United States, the sixteenth.
Each vol. includes all sessions of the respective Congress.
Acts passed at the first [-third] session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven : and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first : published by authority
Acts passed at the third session of the Thirteenth Congress of the United States, : begun and held in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. : Published by authority
by Richard Peters, comprising also some decisions in the same court, by the late Francis Hopkinson, to which are added cases determined in other districts of the United States. With an appendix containing --The laws of Oleron.--The laws of Wisbuy.--The laws of the Hanse towns.--The Marine ordinances of Louis XIV.--A treatise on the rights and duties of owners, freighters, and masters of ships, and of mariners: and the laws of the United States relative to mariners.
Published by William P. Farrand; Robert Carr, printer,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Preface signed: Richard Peters, Jun.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
On verso of front flyleaf: "Affectionely presented to Judge Yeates - by his old & Sincere] Friend, Classmate, and Fellow Student, Richard Peters, Aug. 1807."
An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia
Constitution of the United States of America : the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and rules for the government of the house of representatives of said commonwealth
Results of the election of the President Van Buren glued on inside front cover.
On front flyleaf: "Abraham Kauffman, member of House of Reprensentatives. Donated Kauffman's Park to the Borough of Manheim. His farm and land to the Mennonite Chuch along Manheim Pike and bears his name."
List of the committees of the House glued on inside back cover.
The Constitution proposed for the government of the United States of America, by the foederal convention held at Philadelphia, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven : to which is annexed the ratification thereof by the delegates of Pennsylvania in the state convention
